Niall McLaughlin: Twelve Halls - SOLD OUT

Tue Jan 15 2019 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

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Marking the opening of Presences, an interactive installation of six large-scale models by Níall McLaughlin Architects at 66 Portland Place, this talk by Níall McLaughlin will present ‘Twelve Halls’, a collection of built and unbuilt projects that include spaces for gathering - for dining, storytelling, music, drama, religious rituals and playing sports.

Níall McLaughlin is a London-based architect and Principal of Níall McLaughlin Architects, established in 1990. Having received his architectural qualifications from University College Dublin in 1984, Níall went on to win Young British Architect of the Year in 1998, and was one of the BBC Rising Stars in 2001. His designs have won many awards in the UK, Ireland and the US, including RIAI Best Building in the Landscape, the 2015 Stephen Lawrence Prize for the Best Building under £1 million and was on the Stirling Prize Shortlist in 2013, 2015 and most recently in 2018 for his work on The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Oxford.

Níall has taught extensively around the world and is currently a professor of architecture at University College London and was the Lord Norman Foster visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale in 2015.

Níall McLaughlin’s book, Twelve Halls, will be available to purchase on the evening.